French Abstract: Nous discutons de quelques développements récents en économie expérimentale sur la relation entre la loi et les normes sociales dans la détermination des comportements. Dans l'approche traditionnelle de l'analyse économique du droit, l'effectivité des lois repose...

If, in the past, personal diaries were safely kept inside drawers, today they are exposed before everyone's eyes on the internet. Even since 1967, Guy Debord believed that the society we live in is a show society. Personal blogs become a form of presenting a show. The dynamics of the blogging...

The model provided by Renald Legendre notices the complexity of a pedagogical situation and clarifies perfectly an approach peculiar to the didactics of languages. In the triangulation object of knowledge - teacher - learner there are multifaceted pedagogical relations. In this game of...

The written press is a continuously evolving organism, playing an important part in spreading the linguistic patterns. It is the privileged support of innovation, because it presents accurate facts, takes over the innovations from the specialized language and meanwhile it creates new words out...

Le processus de la mondialisation, ses paradoxes et ses enjeux, ont revitalisé les polémiques autour du statut et du rôle de l’Etat et les ont posées avec une grande acuité dans la littérature et les discours politico-économiques. Tandis que certains y voient une récusation des...

" Switzerland is the growth laggard in the industrial world " - this dismal view has become part and parcel of today's conventional wisdom in Switzerland and elsewhere. We show it to be but partially true : accurate when judged by the trend growth rate of officially recorded real GDPs in...

Short lived arbitrage opportunities arise when prices adjust with a lag to new information. They are toxic because they expose dealers to the risk of trading at stale quotes. Hence, theory implies that more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities and a faster arbitrageurs' response to these...

In the development of the general equilibrium theories, Hicks and Allais played an essential role. We are studying here the contributions which were theirs respectively in Value and Capital (1939) and in the Traité d’économie pure (1943). The accent is put on three points: the theory of...

We reformulate Grandmont's and its successors' notion of behavioral heterogeneity such as to get the exact insensitivity of the aggregate budget share function with respect to changes in prices and income, instead of a mere approximate insensitivity. We propose a non parametric set-up such that,...